PROGRESS ON HONG KONG ISSUES
CHECKLIST OF BULL POINTS
1. JOINT DECLARATION
- JD remains a remarkably good agreement. Better for Hong Kong to revert to China with all the safeguards it contains, than without an agreement. FAC report described JD as "the best and surest treaty base for the future of Hong Kong".
China has massive stake in Hong Kong's continuing success both economically and politically. Nothing that has happened in recent
months has changed that fact.
2.
CONFIDENCE
Doing all we can to reassure Hong Kong people about the future.
As part of our efforts to restore confidence, working on scheme to give Hong Kong people in public and private sectors the confidence to remain in Hong Kong.
Rallying international support for Hong Kong. Will continue to take every opportunity to emphasise to our friends and partners that they have shared responsibility to help.
Reviewing pace of democratisation and current plans for Legislative Council elections in 1991.
Using every appropriate channel open to us to influence Basic Law drafting process in ways helpful to Hong Kong. Conscious of our responsibility to ensure that provisions of Basic Law fully accord with terms of JD.
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Hong Kong Government pressing ahead with important infrastructure projects and early introduction of Bill of Rights.
3.
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
Have redoubled our efforts to work for durable and humane solution.
- No question of anyone returning to Vietnam without assurances from Vietnamese authorities that they will not be punished and that their conditions will be adequately monitored.
Of course people should be free to leave their homeland if they wish.
But must be somewhere for them to go. East Germans have a home in West Germany under FRG constitution. But international community has accepted for some time that Vietnamese boat people, who are screened out as non-refugees and have no prospect of resettlement in West, must return to Vietnam.
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